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About Me

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name rich (staats)
height/weight 5'7 140
stance/width/angles ducked out at 15's as wide as it goes...
season you started riding i think i was around 12 the first time i rode, but i never had more than 4 days in a season till i moved here
board option dufficy 151, ride kink 147
bindings mission
boots celcius until they caused my fractured fibula, now 32 tho im still broken and havent tried them on
outerwear sepia
goggles is design
home mountain the beave
iPod or MD? ipod, but i ride without music
music assorted
park or pow? either
most memorable day riding every day im fortunate enough to ride
crew you ride with reid, jim, rob, brett, and who ever i see at cinch
tindy or tailfish? crail
snow gangster, emo kid, or jock? east coast steez
favorite trick hmm i dont think its my favorite, but back lip 270 out is a fun one
bradshaw or cronk haha eddie wall
last injury spiral fracture to my left fibula
last trick you learned cab 450 to b/s board, 270 out
call last run? try not to
is the JP Walker look finally over? i dont know what that look is
will Holden be cool next year? as long as mikey is runnin the show
remember baseless bindings? yes
remember low backs? yes
jacuzzi or cold shower? never a cold shower
pretzel or danish? danish
trends for next season no one gets hurt

My Interests

snowboarding, acoustic guitar, photography, web & motion design, i love to rip rails on my 147, bombing switch thru crowded groomers

I'd like to meet:

Currently Working on a New Concept in MySpace. Above: Pre-Season Logging in Vail. Photo by Tommy Naab.

Music:

real hip-hop like: Mos Def, Talib Kweli, The Roots, Swollen Members, Lyrics Born, Tone Def Anything acoustic, but mostly: G. Love, Matt Costa, Donovan, recently I cant stop listening to The White Buffalo, Dylan & Cash for sure, Sublime, The Highway Men. Other bands I can't live without are: NOFX, Pink Floyd, Tool, Deftones, and some others I cant remember at the moment. Oh and by the way i have not heard an album, from start to finish, as good as 10,000 days since I was a lil guy listenin to dark side of the moon....

Movies:

Donnie Darko, Dumb & Dumber, Dazed & Confused, The Big Lebowski, Indiana Jones (Trilogy), Anchor Man, The Burbs, Tommy Boy, Snatch, Walk The Line, Office Space, Ice Age (and all Pixar movies), Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Pie, The Boondock Saints, Fargo, Aspen Extreme, The Secret of Nimh

Television:

twin peaks, lost, the daily show, the history & discovery channel..."everything else sucks balls"--Poole

Books:

Steppenwolf, Siddhartha, The Castle, The Trial, A Confederacy of Dunces, The Fountain Head, Anthem, The Virtue of Selfishness, The World is Flat, Queen Noor--I like to read quite a bit, and lately its been nonfiction for whatever reason.